Today was a good day to find a warm, cozy spot and just hunker down and wait it out.
We got our first significant snowfall of the winter and it was beautiful. In fact, I enjoyed going out before kids showed up and shoveling the sidewalk…quiet…pristine looking…large snowflakes falling…no traffic.
But…the roads here never seem to get plowed so there was snow and ruts to drive through. A semi-truck was jack-knifed at a major intersection just a few blocks away. Mid-morning the snow turned to mixed slushy rainfall…and then rain. The low spots on roads around town became flooded…and some major streets were closed. The wind was gusting rather ferociously bringing down tree branches and toppling trash cans.
It was a PERFECT day to stay inside and watch the rain lashing at the windows…and the spruce tree branches waving dangerously in the wind…and the roads turning to absolute rivers of slush…and the snow cover shrinking.
And if you were a California Quail it was a PERFECT day to hunker down under a bushy tree and wait it out…for hours and hours.
